Week 7- Expert Lecture- Sam Harris and the End of Faith

I like the fact that Sam Harris talks about living in a secular world and in this secular world people who believe in faith or fanatics and these people are people that are arrogant and that they only believe their own kind. Sam Harris talks about how we have all these notions about how God wrote these books that we read but how can we be so sure that God wrote those books when he wasn't around. He says that he is worried and he says that religion to us is turning into the Middle East. The fact that from a short few years from now you can sit in a cave in the Middle East with your lap top and be able to screw the human population.

The Sam Harris goes into talks about belief. A belief is a thought that your think maps onto reality. He talks about beliefs and how the can transform your life. That they are machineary to guiding your life. The level of thought brings out the lingustics of the world. That 23 percent of the US believes that Jesus will come back to this world and save us and what Sam Harris is saying that this believes don't happen in isolation. Then he talks about how we are building a
society of ignorance. Followed by these beliefs have a big geo-political problem not just a sunday thing. Then he says something that is interesting and that is we shouldn't be resisting so many things like stem cell research because we are losing so many lives from not testing further and that we are losing many lives because we believe that it is bad to use condoms. So in Africa more and more die form HIV every year.

I agree with Sam Harris. I believe that it is a tragedy that so many die year after year. There are so many things that we as a human race that we are not doing because we believe that it is wrong in a moral way when it can say so many more people like stem cell research. It can aid so many to having better lives. Sometimes we need to go against or morals or tradition, and be able to think outside the box especially when it is for the greater good.